Looking Past Trump, Clinton Aims to Help Other Democrats

Newly confident and buoyant in the polls, Hillary Clinton is looking past Donald Trump while widening her mission to include helping Democrats seize the Senate and chip away at the Republican-controlled House.

Though Trump’s campaign insisted Sunday it was premature to count him out, it’s Clinton whose path to winning the White House has only grown wider in the race’s final weeks. Even longtime Republican strongholds such as Utah and Arizona suddenly appear within reach for Clinton on Nov. 8, enticing Democrats to campaign hard in territory they haven’t won for decades.

The shifting political map has freed up Clinton and her well-funded campaign to spend time and money helping other Democrats in competitive races. Clinton said she didn’t “even think about responding” to Trump anymore and would instead spend the final weeks on the road “emphasizing the importance of electing Democrats down the ballot.”

“We’re running a coordinated campaign, working hard with gubernatorial, Senate, and House candidates,” said Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager.

After a merciless two-year campaign, the next president will face the daunting task of governing a bitterly divided nation. If Clinton wins, her best prospect for achieving her goals will be greatly diminished unless her victory is accompanied by major Democratic gains in Congress.

“We’ve got to do the hard and maybe most important work of healing, healing our country,” Clinton said Sunday at Union Baptist Church in Durham.

For Democrats, there’s another reason to try to run up the score. With Trump warning he may contest the race’s outcome if he loses, Clinton’s campaign is hoping for an overwhelming Democratic victory that would undermine any attempt by Trump to claim the election had been stolen from him.

In a rare admission of fallibility by the typically boastful Trump, his campaign acknowledged he’s trailing Clinton as Election Day nears.

“We are behind. She has some advantages,” said Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Still, she added, “We’re not giving up. We know we can win this.”

Conway laid out in granular detail Trump’s potential path to winning: victories in Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Nevada and Ohio, to start. If Trump prevents Arizona and Georgia from falling to Democrats and adds in some combination of Colorado, Virginia, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, he could reach the 270 electoral votes needed, Conway said.

It won’t be easy. A current Associated Press analysis of polling, demographic trends and other campaign data rates Virginia as solidly Democratic, while Colorado, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania are all leaning Democratic. Arizona, remarkably, is a toss-up.

Trump was campaigning Sunday in Florida after spending the past few days in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

If Clinton wins, Democrats would need a net gain of four Senate seats to retake the majority. House control would be much harder, considering Republicans currently enjoy their largest House majority since 1931. Democrats would need a 30-seat gain, a feat they haven’t accomplished in roughly four decades.

Clinton’s nascent focus on helping fellow Democrats comes with an inherent contradiction. For months, she deliberately avoided the strategy employed by other Democrats of trying to saddle all Republicans with an unpopular Trump. In August, she said Trump represented the “radical fringe,” rather than the mainstream of the Republican Party.

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Painting Trump as beyond the typical GOP pale was a strategy intended to help Clinton win over voters who identify as Republicans but dislike Trump. Yet it’s been a major sore point for Democratic campaign groups, illustrated by an internal Democratic National Committee email in May that was hacked and later disclosed by WikiLeaks.

“They don’t want us to tie Trump to other Republicans because they think it makes him look normal,” top DNC official Luis Miranda wrote in an email under the subject line “Problem with HFA,” an acronym for Hillary For America.

Andrea Bozek of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate GOP’s campaign arm, said Clinton’s last-minute push to aid Democrats was insufficient to make up for her party’s shortfalls in recruiting competitive candidates this year.

“Democrats have relied on political gravity from the presidential race to carry them across the finish line,” Bozek said.

Indeed, as Clinton campaigned in North Carolina, where Democrats hope to unseat GOP Sen. Richard Burr, Clinton’s argument appeared to rest on the hopes that voters offended by Trump would vote against Burr, too. She said Democratic candidate and American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Deborah Ross knows that Trump “is wrong for America.”

“Unlike her opponent, Debra has never been afraid to stand up to Donald Trump,” Clinton said.

Clinton isn’t the only Democrat putting a premium on down-ballot races.

President Barack Obama flew to Nevada on Sunday to campaign for the Democratic Senate candidate there before heading to San Diego to raise money for House Democrats. He and Vice President Joe Biden have recorded ads, raised money and campaigned in person for dozens of House, Senate and other Democratic candidates this year.

For Trump, the campaign’s finals weeks have been shadowed by concerns about his sexually predatory comments about women and mounting allegations of sexual assault. Trump used a weekend speech to announce he planned to sue all of the women, while one of his supporters, former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Trump supporter, lamented his “oppression” by the media.

“He’s been waterboarded by these issues,” Brewer said.

Mook and Brewer spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Conway spoke on “Fox News Sunday” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

The alleged attackers appear to have sent foundation staffers booby-trapped email attachments or links to websites featuring malicious content, a technique known as “spear phishing,” according to the report. These are the same tactics reportedly employed against other organizations, such as the Democratic National Committee, the presidential campaign supporting Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party’s’ congressional fundraising committee.

Craig Minassian, the Clinton Foundation’s communications chief, told Fortune that the Foundation has not discovered a compromise.

“What I told you before is still true,” he wrote in an email, pointing to a statement he made in regards to an earlier alleged breach of the foundation in June. “We have no evidence Clinton Foundation systems were breached and have not been notified by law enforcement of an issue.”

FireEye officials declined to comment.

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Security experts have speculated—and administration officials have said behind closed doors—that Russian intelligence agencies are likely behind the operations targeting Democratic groups, though the U.S. government has not said so publicly. Russian spies or their operatives are believed to be behind the attack on the foundation as well, Reuters reported.

Democrats continue to brace themselves for the possibility of imminent leaks from hackers. Last week, the online persona that goes by “Guccifer 2.0,” believed by many to be an elaborate front by Russian intelligence, released hundreds of personal phone numbers and email addresses for Democratic leaders. Officials fear more could be on the way.

Democratic Officials Are Fighting to Reform the Superdelegate System

An amendment was voted on this weekend by the Democratic party’s Rules Committee that would have eliminated superdelegates in the nominating process.

With a vote of 108 to 58, the amendment failed to pass at the committee meeting in Philadelphia on Saturday, the Huffington Post reports. However, supporters of the effort don’t appear to be giving up. Since more than a quarter of the committee voted in support of the amendment, they can file a “minority report” that would allow it to be voted on at the Democratic National Convention among all the delegates. The convention begins on Monday.

Representative Aaron Regunberg, the committee member responsible for introducing the amendment, told the Huffington Post that its supporters are “not going to be satisfied until we’re able to bring this for a national vote.” Many argue that the superdelegate system is partly why Bernie Sanders was unable to win the Democratic nomination, and some even referred to the system as “rigged.” That notion is only strengthened by leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee that showed party officials mocking efforts by Sanders and his supporters to abolish the superdelegate system, calling it “another lunacy.”

“We want to make sure in future nominating processes that it is one person, one vote,” Regunberg said. “I can’t think of a better step as far as uniting our party… than passing this resolution.” Representative Diane Russell echoed his statement. “This isn’t about Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, this is about the nominating process,” she told the Huffington Post. “One person should have one vote. This is creating an unnecessary class divide in our party.”

The committee voted on another amendment that would have reduced the influence of super delegates, rather than eliminating them entirely. It also failed to pass, by a similar margin.

Representative Sheila Jackson, one opponent of the reform, claims that the superdelegate system promotes diversity, though some argue that it has the opposite effect. Another opponent, Representative Donna Christian-Christensen, said that perhaps the system isn’t perfect, but this simply is not the time to implement any changes, saying that “rushing to judgment, especially at a time when emotions are running high, is not the right way.”

Russian Hackers Reportedly Breach Clinton Foundation

The Democratic National Committee isn’t the only political target allegedly under attack by Russian hackers. The Clinton Foundation’s computer network has reportedly suffered a breach as well.

Government investigators discovered the compromise “as recently as last week,” Bloomberg reports, citing three unnamed people familiar with the matter. The intrusion is believed to be part of a broader hacking campaign allegedly sponsored by Russia ahead of the United States presidential election in November.

Craig Minassian, communications chief of the foundation, denied the claim in a statement provided to Fortune. “We have no evidence Clinton Foundation systems were breached and have not been notified by law enforcement of an issue.”

U.S. officials warned both the Democratic and Republican camps as well as the campaigns of the candidates Clinton, Donald Trump, and Bernie Sanders, to be on high alert for computer-based attacks, Bloomberg said, citing one of the unnamed people. According to another anonymous source cited in the report, hackers targeted as many as 4,000 politically affiliated individuals—”party aides, advisors, lawyers and foundations”—between October and May.

The campaigns did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment, nor did Fortune hear back from the U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and National Security Agency, all of which are reportedly involved in the investigation.

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The Democratic National Committee suffered a data leak last week. The cybersecurity firms CrowdStrike and Fidelis, which reviewed the malware used to conduct the attack, have attributed it to Russia-sponsored groups—the same ones likely behind the other attacks. FireEye feye and Palo Alto Networks panw are also involved in the investigation, according to Bloomberg. Neither immediately responded to Fortune’s request for comment.

Intelligence experts have suggested that the digital attacks could be part of a Russian disinformation campaign intended to influence the U.S. election and gain political advantages against foreign governments.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin, issued a statement categorically denying any involvement on the part of the country’s government or government agencies in the DNC hack.

Fortune will update this post if and when it hears back from any of the aforementioned parties.

UPDATE 6/21/16: The Clinton Foundation said that it had no evidence of a breach, and that it had not been notified of one by authorities.